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Acceptable is not the right word. It's just more acceptable than your friend not having enough money to treat their cancer or be financially ruined by a car acc
by chefandy 3y ago
Acceptable is not the right word. It's just more acceptable than your friend not having enough money to treat their cancer or be financially ruined by a car accident. ~2/3 of people in the US support single-payer health care, but the downward pressure from the insurance industry suppresses it.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>~2/3 of people in the US support single-payer health care I think that support massively goes down when the likes of fox news runs FUD headline about how people in the UK are dying due to long waiting times, coming to the conclusion that single payer systems are BAD, private-only healthcare is GOOD. People can easily be manipulated by mass UFD to vote against their own best interests.
- chefandy 3y agoI got my info based on recent Pew data that broke it down into political categories, which Das obviously lower on the right, but still substantial. The public option of the ACA— which was essentially medicare for all— was single-handedly blocked by democratic senator Joe Liberman of Connecticut who gets a fuckton of support from the insurance industry. This is much less about what people want and much more about what insurance companies will allow to happen. Sure there's disinformation and partisan asshattery but don't forget who's really pulling the strings.